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Salad. — Lettuce in warm places can be sown: 

 likewise radish. 



Sweet Potatoes may be raised by means of a 

 moderate hotbed, in which they should be planted 

 whole early in February, three or four inches deep, 

 and about the same distance apart. In about a 

 month they will throw up sprouts. When these 

 are three inches above ground, part them off from 

 the potato, which if suffered to remain will produce 

 more sprouts for a successive planting; transplant 

 them into rich light soil, in rows four feet apart, and 

 the plants about a foot apart in the rows, or in hills 

 four feet apart. Keep them clear of weeds until the 

 vines begin to cover the ground ; after which they 

 will grow freely. In sandy ground, it is well to put 

 a shovelful of rotten manure to each plant. A 

 moderate hotbed five feet square, with half a peck of 

 good sound sweet potatoes placed therein early in 

 the month of April, will send forth a succession of 

 sprouts in May and June, which if planted and 

 managed as directed, will yield about fifteen bushels 

 of good roots. 



Pumpkin. — (^Cucurbita pepo)— (varieties, finest Chi- 

 nese or family; mammoth or Spanish, Connecticut 

 field, white bell) : This plant is highly deserving of 

 cultivation, particularly in new settlements; the 



